A look at MrDeepFakes, a site with obscure ownership that hosts non-consensual deepfake porn, has close to 650K members, and gets millions of visits per month
This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here. Bluesky: @mikefulk , @beaudonelly , @bellingcat.com , @herdaleg , @bellingcat.com , @bellingcat.com , and @bellingcat.com . Forums: r/OSINT Bluesky: Mike Fulk / @mikefulk : AI has really been a transformative technology, worth spewing carbon into the skies and every penny of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent! [embedded post] Beau Donelly / @beaudonelly : The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab's @kentonthibaut.bsky.social discusses privacy and security concerns of apps linked to China for our @bellingcat.com piece about the tech companies promoted by the MrDeepFakes porn website. www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and- ... @bellingcat.com : Candy. ai another app on MrDeepFakes claims it allows users to create their own “AI girlfriend”. Pop up ads on MrDeepfakes for the app are labelled with “Generate Your AI Trash Whore” and “AI Jerk Off”. Giles Herdale / @herdaleg : More concerning evidence of the murky ecosystem of enablers of #deepfaked non-consensual intimate images #NCII or sexual digital forgeries being used against advocates for addressing violence against women and girls #VAWG. Demands robust, joined up policy responses. @bellingcat.com : Those behind the site are difficult to track. The site's hosting providers change constantly. Premium memberships are processed with cryptocurrency through a system that uses a new address for each transaction. Transactions through PayPal direct to numerous accounts under unverifiable names. @bellingcat.com : Deepswap AI is permanently linked on the top bar of the MrDeepFakes website. It is a tool that allows users to create lifelike deepfake photos and videos for $9.99 per month. Marketing for the app plays on the ability to use your own images, with the caption “Deepfake anyone you want”. [image] @bellingcat.com : Patrizia Schlosser discovered more than 30 images of herself online, pictured naked and in chains, in sexually explicit scenarios. But the imagery was all faked. Bellingcat, with STRG_F, investigate the AI porn website disseminating this material, MrDeepfakes. www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and- ... Forums: r/OSINT : Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site's Link to Tech Companies